Real Estate Transactions: Tax Planning and Consequences examines the tax consequences of real estate transactions, providing detailed examples from real-life situations, and offering cases, code provisions, rulings, regulations, checklists, and forms. It explains tax treatments of expenses, depreciation methods, tax basis of acquired property, passive losses and credits, and installment sales. The text provides in-depth analysis of recent pronouncements and more advanced concepts impacting the field. Specific areas of discussion include basic real property principles, introductory tax concepts, expenses, non-fee ownership tax areas, credits, accounting concepts, tax-deferred transactions, subdivisions, construction and development, entities for ownership – tax characteristics, and non-income tax aspects.

• Provides details on use of entities in real estate tax planning
• Provides details on use of entities in real estate tax planning
• Covers new developments in tax deferred exchanges
• Covers new developments in tax deferred exchanges
• Examines all important expense deductions for the real estate expert
• Examines all important expense deductions for the real estate expert
• Supports examples with cited revenue rulings, revenue procedures, private letter rulings, cases, statutes, regulations and other authorities
• Covers the basic rules, history, and uses of key tax planning techniques
• Offers insight on using the installment sale method, with twists for planning, to your advantage
• Is written by practicing attorneys, realtors and professors with combined experience of more than 50 years in these areas
• Is designed to be used by both the novice and by those with more sophisticated real estate tax problems
• Is written by practicing attorneys, realtors and professors with combined experience of more than 50 years in these areas
• Offers insight on using the installment sale method, with twists for planning, to your advantage
• Supports examples with cited revenue rulings, revenue procedures, private letter rulings, cases, statutes, regulations and other authorities
• Covers the basic rules, history, and uses of key tax planning techniques
• Is designed to be used by both the novice and by those with more sophisticated real estate tax problems